Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical ReaderThe last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period. Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do some reconceiving themselves. |
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... early modern literary studies but also in generously providing access to its landmarks. The result is a book that compellingly demonstrates how various and exciting contemporary scholarship is, at the same time as it reminds us of how ...
... early modern literary studies but also in generously providing access to its landmarks. The result is a book that compellingly demonstrates how various and exciting contemporary scholarship is, at the same time as it reminds us of how ...
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... early modern manuscripts either haven't survived or, as is regularly the case with poetry, they have survived in multiple versions, not as a prelude to print, but as part of a system of manuscript circulation that endured well after the ...
... early modern manuscripts either haven't survived or, as is regularly the case with poetry, they have survived in multiple versions, not as a prelude to print, but as part of a system of manuscript circulation that endured well after the ...
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... early modern players and playwrights, have readily inserted themselves into the curriculum as proper objects of scholarly enquiry. The poststructuralist notion of 'iterability' is relevant here: like any other sign, the Renaissance text ...
... early modern players and playwrights, have readily inserted themselves into the curriculum as proper objects of scholarly enquiry. The poststructuralist notion of 'iterability' is relevant here: like any other sign, the Renaissance text ...
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... contemporary Renaissance criticis emphatically to turn towards historical bodies instead.14 Critics have claimed the Renaissance as particularly 'early modern'in its discovery of the scientific physicality of the human animal which ...
... contemporary Renaissance criticis emphatically to turn towards historical bodies instead.14 Critics have claimed the Renaissance as particularly 'early modern'in its discovery of the scientific physicality of the human animal which ...
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... modern and postmodern epochs has, in fact, resulted in its reconceptualization in much recent work as 'the early modern period'. Crucially, if Renaissance studies attests to the ways in which the past is shaped by the present, it also ...
... modern and postmodern epochs has, in fact, resulted in its reconceptualization in much recent work as 'the early modern period'. Crucially, if Renaissance studies attests to the ways in which the past is shaped by the present, it also ...
Contents
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3 Histories | 85 |
4 Appropriation | 145 |
5 Identities | 211 |
6 Materiality | 278 |
7 Values | 353 |
Acknowledgements of Sources | 423 |
Index | 429 |
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